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A lot of modern Greek names are derived from ancient pagan deities but growing up Catholic I remember hearing stuff about how you should always name a child after a saint or someone in the Bible. Did pagan names became a taboo for Catholicism but not Orthodoxy or is this a different issue?

by /u/johhny-turbo in /r/AskHistorians

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